Revisiting the Beach

Postgraduate Conference

3 July 2009

Newcastle University

Time	Session	Topic
9.30-10.00	Registration/Coffee
	Introduction
10.00-11.00	Key Note Address, Dr Judith Tucker	Inside Out: Drawing the Domestic Uncanny
Session 1	Sociology/ History
11.00-11.25	Conway, Rebecca	Encountering the Freak Show on Blackpool’s Central Beach, 1932-1935
11.25-11.50	Fahey, Carolyn	The Paradox of the Coastal Environments in terms of Building
11.50-12.00	Break
12.00-12.25	Darke, Jane	The Wrecking Season
12.25-12.50	Barrento, Antonio	Refuge and Utopian Space: the Beach in Republican China
12.50-13.50	Lunch Break, 1 hour
Session 2	Literary/Theory
13.50-14.15	Fox, John	Weather Station
14.15-14.40	de Stacpoole, Marina	‘The Blue Lagoon’
14.40-15.05	Keay, Cathrine	Beach Architecture
15.05-15.15	Break
15.15-15.40	Abray, Tom	Peering into the Depths
15.40-16.05	Duarte, Joana	Along the looking glass: on beach and the unaccomplished experience of the being
16.05-16.15	Break
Session 3	Gender
16.15-16.40	Thomas, Maria	Gendered Sand: Laurent Cantent’s Vers Le Sud and the Beach as a Contested Site of Pleasure
16.40-17.05	Macleod, Mark	Writing against the Tide
17.05-17.15	Break
17.15-17.40	Brown, Irene	Sands of Time
17.40-18.05	Devienne, Elsa	The Best and the Strongest: An Anatomy of Muscle Beach and its controversies (1932-1958)
	Plenary
19.00	Vernissage Exhibition ‘Revisiting the Beach’
20.00	Dinner